The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . as a long mirror in three sections. ISTothing definiteis known about this furniture. A beautiful Chippendale stair winds from the first floor,through the second and to the third story. The treads are ofheart pine, and some of them are worn to the risers (w).Under the projections of the steps there are brackets orna-mented with rosettes and foils. The newel or end posts withcaps and pendants, and the balusters which are placed three to a step, are turned out ofsolid mahogany. The materialprobably came from the WestIndies. The
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . as a long mirror in three sections. ISTothing definiteis known about this furniture. A beautiful Chippendale stair winds from the first floor,through the second and to the third story. The treads are ofheart pine, and some of them are worn to the risers (w).Under the projections of the steps there are brackets orna-mented with rosettes and foils. The newel or end posts withcaps and pendants, and the balusters which are placed three to a step, are turned out ofsolid mahogany. The materialprobably came from the WestIndies. The hand-rail on thelower flight of stairs, becauseof the right turn of three steps,drops to the floor of the landingabove and to the middle of thenewel post. The hand-rails areof some soft wood. The reasonfor this is simple; the lathe isa very old machine, and theharder the wood the better canthe work be done, but in Colonial days all the carving had tobe done by hand, and the softest possible wood wasselected(.r). The wainscoting of the staircase, like the wain- 1=^. (w) White pine formerly most extensively used soft wood inAmerica (Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. XVI). (x) Carving on large scale was with white pine, fir, etc. (Encyclo-pedia Americana, Vol. XVI). 214 THE NOETH CAEOLHSTA BOOKLET scot of the hall, is stained dark to match the balusters. Atthe first turn the panel is larger than the others, and hereit may be seen that they are made of white pine. Thestair makes one and three-fourth turns, and when ascendingwe may see the heavy wall plates, at least twelve inches thick,between the floors. These plates, like the rest of the frame,are pinned together with wooden pegs. The hall on the second floor is seven feet nine inches has four exits to rooms. The door to the room above theback right room of the first room is only twenty-three incheswide, the three other doors are thirty inches wide. This hallhas a six-inch wash-boarding, no wainscotting, and a plainmolded cha
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